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Virulent protesters outside abortion clinics around Australia are only part of the violation of women’s rights perpetuated by anti-abortion laws, writes Caroline de Costa, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at James Cook University.

“Zoe’s Law” seemed destined for a quiet demise in NSW’s upper house, but after ICAC has claimed quite a few Liberal scalps, the political landscape has changed. Freelance journalist Claire Pullen reports.

Victorian MP Geoff Shaw is the latest conservative Australian politician to try to limit access to abortions. Freelance journalist David Donaldson says it wouldn’t be easy to outlaw abortion altogether, but chipping away at the edges could produce long-lasting restrictions.

A women’s health clinic is taking Melbourne City Council to court to force it to protect the health and wellbeing of patients and staff. Maurice Blackburn associate Lizzie O’Shea says the anti-abortion activists outside the clinic are not exercising their rights to free assembly, they are threatening the health of vulnerable women.

The Daily Telegraph has called out Tanya Plibersek for using taxpayer funds to fly her family to part of her electorate for constituent business — although that is easily within the rules. So what did she do wrong then?

ALP Senator Jacinta Collins has had a meteoric rise into Rudd’s new cabinet. Who is she — and will her intense social conservatism raise serious questions about her capacity to function as Mental Health Minister?

Labor may be broken beyond anything Kevin Rudd could repair — as Bernard Keane argues today — but not-for-profit journalism is on the way up. We ask whether rich private schools should get “charity” perks, and we peruse the looming book-valanche on ALP woes. And don’t follow The Age’s guide to poisonous mushrooms …